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title: ‘No, thank you, miss,’ said the fox, ‘what is Mrs Fox doing?’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, thank you, miss,’ said the fox, ‘what is Mrs Fox doing?’ Who acts: Mrs Fox. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 12

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‘No, thank you, miss,’ said the fox, ‘what is Mrs Fox doing?’

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**Who acts:** Mrs Fox · **What happens:** thank, say, be, do · **To what, where:** you, fox, Mrs Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:54:12
# text = ‘No, thank you, miss,’ said the fox, ‘what is Mrs Fox doing?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | you |  |  | miss *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Mrs Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | Mrs Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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